It may well be a waste of time, but it is now certain that the United States we all thought we had is no longer. We have a thoroughly corrupt system - to include all three branches of the Federal Government with the rot having already consumed most state and local governments, including the courts, and spreading rapidly to the rest.
I would much rather live in a state or group of states that recognizes and honors Natural Law and the freedoms that spring from it.
It will take a war to secede from the Union and what about the nukes?